

He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. Tie-ins included Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-0, Mannix, Friday the 13th Part III, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and even The Partridge Family. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.

Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films.

And, more often than not, wins.Also wrote Nick Carter: Killmaster series under Nick Carter alias with others Through it all, the wisecracking Noon is consistent: a movie and baseball-obsessed romantic who always fights the good fight. The series concludes with a daring turn toward science fiction in the last two novels. Noon starts out dirt poor with a tiny office in Midtown Manhattan (his "Mouse Auditorium") but success moves him to better digs, a lovely secretary (Melissa Mercer) and, eventually, the most important client of all: the President of the United States. The Adventures of Ed Noon, Private Eye, span over 30 novels written between 19. Noon has to find the reason why a corpse was seemingly murdered more than once.

But I didn't really start off as a fugitive from a nudist colony."-Ed Noon, Private EyeĮd Noon has to find the reason why a corpse was seemingly murdered more than once with a greedy stripper, a sadistic millionaire, and assorted goons and thugs standing in the way.Įd Noon's laundry suddenly becomes the all-important focus for the hunt of a lifetime, which brings him into harm's way via a very greedy stripper, a sadistic millionaire, and assorted goons and thugs. The day I really got mixed up in the case of the Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse. Take of all your clothes!' was the dizziest day of my private-eye life. "The day the fur-bearing, gun-bearing blonde said, 'Strip, Noon.
